Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 17:17:32 UTC 2008
max bianco wrote:
>
>>> The defaults are wrong for you ,me, and just about everyone that
>>> subscribes to this list. Joe User doesn't need access to these
>>> commands.
>>>
>> That is an annoyingly elitist attitude that still doesn't justify making
>> things more confusing.
>>
> It is not elitist.
Considering yourself a 'special' case is elitist.
> It forces the user to learn as I have taken the
> trouble to do because it interests me to do so. If i am not interested
> then maybe seeing command not found will prod me to learn the why of
> things,
Having programs that you need to run not in your default PATH is not
'the way of things'. It is the way one one peculiar distribution set
its defaults. Having /sbin, /user/sbin at all is not 'the way of
things', it is the way some unix-like systems arrange things.
>> That has absolutely nothing to do with supplying usable defaults, which is
>> what this conversation was about.
>
> This conversation is about moving /sbin into /bin and why that is or
> is not a bad idea. My solution would be long term, as it would force
> the user to learn the way of things and then we could move /sbin into
> /bin and not worry about it : )
Learning the oddball quirks of a peculiar version of something is
generally a waste of time for everyone involved. The point of having a
PATH variable and a shell that searches it is so you don't have to learn
that kind of crap and re-learn it every time some committee gets
together and calls their new arrangement a standard. No one should
ever have to learn where ifconfig lives this week. On the other hand,
if they learn what it does, that should be good for another 30 years.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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